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Easily imo shame she had to run against so many druggies 
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Board and Smallwood ....different distances but without doubt great athletes. The Lilian Board story was very sad;she seemed a lovely girl
Mary Rand
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Mary Rand 1966.jpg
Mary Rand in 1966
Personal information
Born 10 February 1940 (age 74)
Wells, UK
Height 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight 61 kg (134 lb)
Sport
Sport Sprint
Club London Olympiades
Medal record[hide]
Representing Great Britain
Olympic Games
Gold Tokyo 1964 Long jump
Silver Tokyo 1964 Pentathlon
Bronze Tokyo 1964 4×100 m relay
European Championships
Bronze Belgrade 1962 Long jump
Bronze Belgrade 1962 4×100 m relay
Commonwealth Games
Representing England
Gold Kingston 1966 Long jump
Silver Cardiff 1958 Long jump
Mary Denise Rand, MBE, (née Bignal on 10 February 1940) is a former English track and field athlete. She won the gold medal in the long jump at the 1964 Summer Olympics by breaking the world record, becoming the first-ever British female to win an Olympic gold medal in a track and field event. She remains the only Great Britain female athlete to win three medals in a single Games.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mary Rand 1966.jpg
Mary Rand in 1966
Personal information
Born 10 February 1940 (age 74)
Wells, UK
Height 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight 61 kg (134 lb)
Sport
Sport Sprint
Club London Olympiades
Medal record[hide]
Representing Great Britain
Olympic Games
Gold Tokyo 1964 Long jump
Silver Tokyo 1964 Pentathlon
Bronze Tokyo 1964 4×100 m relay
European Championships
Bronze Belgrade 1962 Long jump
Bronze Belgrade 1962 4×100 m relay
Commonwealth Games
Representing England
Gold Kingston 1966 Long jump
Silver Cardiff 1958 Long jump
Mary Denise Rand, MBE, (née Bignal on 10 February 1940) is a former English track and field athlete. She won the gold medal in the long jump at the 1964 Summer Olympics by breaking the world record, becoming the first-ever British female to win an Olympic gold medal in a track and field event. She remains the only Great Britain female athlete to win three medals in a single Games.
All about opinions but Kathy Cook was the best imo. Shame she never got the credit or the medals she deserved.
As well as define "best ever", define "athlete." Are you talking track and field only?
Depends on the definition and whilst my own belief is that Kathy Smallwood/Cook was our greatest largely unsung running hero I don't think anybody will compare with Chrissie Wellington in my lifetime. Totally and utterly different class. No debate.
We had a long debate about this a while ago on here.
Lilian Board :(
The answer is Radcliffe though.
Lilian Board :(
The answer is Radcliffe though.
Yu can't be serious Jed. Radcliffe is our greatest long distance runner with the times to prove it but she never medalled either on track or marathon in an olympics and her marathon time whilst brilliant isn't so amazingly quick in womens terms and would rank her as little more than an outstanding club runner in mens endurance running. She certainly wouldn't get near a top 20 finish in an average mens championship event.
Wellington was never beaten in an iron man event. Ever. Even when badly injured she toughed it out to victory. Not only did she complete the fastest two times in history for women and not only is she the only woman to go under eight and a half hours but she went under eight hours twenty minutes. World class for that event is sub nine hours for women. Not only was she a great woman athlete but given her capabilities you could have put her on the start line of any mens iron man event in history including the world championships at Kona and she would have got a top ten finish and plenty of top three finishes.
She was the best. By a distance.
Wellington was never beaten in an iron man event. Ever. Even when badly injured she toughed it out to victory. Not only did she complete the fastest two times in history for women and not only is she the only woman to go under eight and a half hours but she went under eight hours twenty minutes. World class for that event is sub nine hours for women. Not only was she a great woman athlete but given her capabilities you could have put her on the start line of any mens iron man event in history including the world championships at Kona and she would have got a top ten finish and plenty of top three finishes.
She was the best. By a distance.
One more point to further illustrate this. Paula's fastest time in a womens only marathon where she wasn't paced by men would have seen her finish about 34th in the mens 2012 olympics. Chrissie's fastest times which were all set against other women would have seen her win the mens iron man race at Kona where they hold the world iron man championships in that year of 2012. The mens race.Not the womens race which she would have won by about an hour. From memory I think 2011 was her last iron man event.
Eeternaloptimist 01 Aug 14 00:42
One more point to further illustrate this. Paula's fastest time in a womens only marathon where she wasn't paced by men would have seen her finish about 34th in the mens 2012 olympics. Chrissie's fastest times which were all set against other women would have seen her win the mens iron man race at Kona where they hold the world iron man championships in that year of 2012. The mens race.Not the womens race which she would have won by about an hour. From memory I think 2011 was her last iron man event.
Ridiuclus logic. Kona is hot and windy, its like comparing a mans time cycling up Alpe d'Huez with a woman cycling round Hyde Park
One more point to further illustrate this. Paula's fastest time in a womens only marathon where she wasn't paced by men would have seen her finish about 34th in the mens 2012 olympics. Chrissie's fastest times which were all set against other women would have seen her win the mens iron man race at Kona where they hold the world iron man championships in that year of 2012. The mens race.Not the womens race which she would have won by about an hour. From memory I think 2011 was her last iron man event.
Ridiuclus logic. Kona is hot and windy, its like comparing a mans time cycling up Alpe d'Huez with a woman cycling round Hyde Park
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